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1) Torch
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English
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"When 17-year-old Pavol fatally sets himself on fire in Prague in 1969 to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, his three best friends must figure out how to survive an oppressive regime without him"--
2) Float
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Float (Laura Martin) volume 1
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English
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Emerson can float... he just can't do it very well.
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The gripping story of a boy's escape by boat from Communist Vietnam in 1980.
Twelve-year-old Tho Pham lives with his family in South Vietnam. He spends his afternoons playing soccer and cricket fighting, but life is slowly changing under the Communists. His parents are worried, and Tho knows the Communist army will soon knock on their door to make his brother, and then him, join them. Still, it shocks him when his father says he's arranged for
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